Never Dry Out Your Chicken Again Using Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Secret Brine

🍋🔥 Guy Fieri’s chicken brine is the secret to poultry in motion—perfectly tender, juicy, and packed with flavor! 🧂 Let the brine do its thing, and you’ll be cluckin’ with joy! 🐔💥

Before cooking your chicken, you'll need to make the chicken brine by combining lemon, cold water, salt, sugar, bay leaf, garlic, and black pepper in a pot. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes, stirring until the salt and sugar dissolve. Strain the brine, discard the solids, and stir in ice water to cool it down. Let the raw chicken soak in the brine for two hours.

Ingredients

Guy Fieri's Chicken Brine

• 3 lemons, halved
• 2 ½ quarts cold water
• ½ cup kosher salt
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 bay leaf
• 6 cloves garlic, peeled (about 1 head)
• 1 ½ teaspoons coarsely ground black pepper
• 5 quarts ice water
• 1 whole chicken (5-8 lbs)